A while back, one of our brethren became disenchanted with fox.wikis.com and set up his own fox wiki. In the same way, people always can set up their own achievement award and run a democratic selection if they're disenchanted with this one. Unless somebody is willing to do that, the choice either is to accept the award that somebody else is prepared to manage, or ignore it. FWIW there may be only one "community" member selected by the other committee members to consider open nominations, but that's more democratic than it used to be and people still agreed with the selections when it was a closed process so it all comes out OK in the end.

Assuming that it's living recipients and if it's "lifetime" meaning it's cumulative over the years of fox life, then Lisa Slater and Ken Levy must stand out IMHO. Lisa may have been less visible for a while, but her contribution was massive in the good old days.